It has been said that Waldemar Ager may have been the most interesting Norwegian who ever migrated to America. Einar Haugen, that "grand old man" of Norwegian studies agrees, in his recently completed book-length study of Ager's fictional writings which will be published in 1989.
As an historian of Norwegians in America, I was first stimulated to investigate his career and his impact because of my childhood memories of him. Ager was an old man here in Eau Claire when I was a small boy and my father knew him quite well--and used to play whist with him regularly in the Sons of Norway Whist Club that was very active at the time.
Ager was still publishing his newspaper, Reform, at the time, but to an ever-shrinking subscription list, barely making ends meet in the Great Depression. As you know, Eau Claire and the surrounding area of northwestern Wisconsin was a region of quite heavy Norwegian settlement. But when I was small, in the later 1930's, there were only a few relics and reminders left of the thriving Norwegian-American subculture that had once been so alive here--and across the upper Midwest—only a few decades earlier. And Waldemar Ager's little Norwegian-language weekly was one of those relics--as was, in many ways, Ager himself.
Although I was only 7 or 8 years old, I remember accompanying my father to Ager's old-fashioned newspaper office and print shop on the second floor of a storefront building near the Four Corners on Barstow Street. I remember being impressed, as well as a bit intimidated, by that sprightly, witty, birdlike little old man with the sharp, penetrating eyes.
But he was very kindly toward me. He once gave me a slug of type from his linotype machine, which I treasured and played with long afterward. My parents had quite recently emigrated to America then and my first language of the home was norsk, so I was able to speak Norwegian to Ager. That may be why he was particularly pleased with me—for by then there were precious few small children whose mother tongue was Norwegian in Eau Claire any longer--or anywhere else in the Midwest for that matter.
In my adult professional life, as a teacher and historian of the Norwegian ethnic group in America, I've come to learn that the career of Waldemar Ager is not only interesting for its own sake. His energetic activities in behalf of his countrymen in America also illuminate, as the lives of few other important figures of the time can, the achievements, the social dynamics and the fragile texture of det norske Amerika in its most "golden age". That "golden age" of retention of the Norwegian language and culture in this land peaked during the decades from the 1890's to the 1920's—and Waldemar Ager was a central figure in making it happen. His influence was national--wherever there were Norwegians in ths land, far beyond just Eau Claire and northwestern Wisconsin.
He was born in Frederikstad in 1869 and grew up in Gressvik--just across the river Glåma. The street on which he lived there is today named Waldemar Agers Vei in his honor and memory.
In 1885, at the age of sixteen, he emigrated to America with his mother and two siblings to join the father in Chicago—who had gone to America earlier. Ager learned the printer's trade as an apprentice typesetter for Norden, one of Chicago's large Norwegian-language papers at the time. He also became an active member of a Norwegian temperance lodge there and began writing short pieces for its little monthly paper. He would remain a dedicated avholdsmann—alcohol prohibitionist—for the rest of his life--perhaps because of his father, who had drinking problems.
Ager moved to Eau Claire in 1892 when he was 23 years old. He had been offered a job here as a typesetter and fledgling journalist for a new Norwegian temperance paper called Reform. Upon the death of its editor in 1903, Ager succeeded to that position and eventually became owner of the paper; he would be associated with the paper for the rest of his life.
It was here in Eau Claire that he met a young immigrant woman from Trømso, Gurolle Blestren, whom he married. They were to raise nine children in the home he purchased on Chestnut Street--which still stands.
Reform became the main pulpit from which Ager pleaded his idealistic causes, urged his political opinions on his readers, and worked to raise the ethnic consciousness of his countrymen and women in the new land—as well as their moral and cultural level.
He shaped Reform into a highly personal organ. It became recognized by friends and foes alike as one of the most crisply edited and engagingly written, although often controversial, Norwegian-language papers in America. It never was a large, mass-circulated paper, but in the peak years of Norwegian language retention in America before the First World War, Reform had a respectable weekly circulation of some 10,000 copies. It was read by farmers, urban blue collar folk, and most of the people of prominence across the Norwegian American heartland from northern Illinois and Upper Michigan in the east to the prairies of the Dakotas in the west.
Reform became much more than just a temperance paper in Ager's hands. It informed, educated, entertained, berated, and, occasionally, no doubt, infuriated its readers. As in all of his writings, Ager's provocative style combined wry irony, clever satire and social criticism with wit, humor and a genuine folkevarme. A fellow author and journalist once described Ager as a writer who "had a lyre in one hand and a dissecting knife in the other".
Not surprisingly, the paper died when Ager did, in 1941, when its readership had declined to a few hundred old survivors of the Norwegian-American heyday that was now past.
Waldemar Ager was also a man of apparently inexhaustioble energy. Aside from putting out his paper, he traveled widely and frequently throughout Norwegian America for forty years, speaking, organizing and working in behalf of his causes. He became a popular and well-known speaker who was much in demand throughout the Norwegian-American world.
He was a captivating and witty story teller at the lectern, just as he was in print, as he sought support for his beliefs in a persuasive and, obviously, highly entertaining way. He may have given at least a thousand speeches in his lifetime, and his platform appearances were as ubiquitous as was his little paper across Norwegian America.
Ager also found the energy and inspiration to write six novels and eight volumes of short stories, as well as occasional poetry. His creative writing was done at night, he commented once, when his wife and nine children were asleep and the house was quiet.
He also said once that he was eternally grateful for having been blessed with a good memory, an appetite for work, and little need for sleep. His career among his Norwegian countrymen gives ample testimony to the truth of this statement, as he labored tirelessly for over half a century in behalf of many causes whose common denominator was the retention of norskdom ["norwegianness"] in America. Although a short man of slight build, Ager remained a dynamo of energy and activity until his rather sudden death of cancer in 1941 at the age of 72. He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Eau Claire.
First--and perhaps foremost--he was an ardent Norwegian cultural and linguistic preservationist. His dream, like that of a good many other Norwegian-Amercian leaders at the time, was to build a permanent Norwegia-American subculture within the larger American society. It would not be wholly Norwegian, but not totally American, either, while retaining the best in the Norwegian folk heritage. A bridge must be maintained between this Norwegian America and Mother Norway, he insisted, and that bridge was the language-- the Norwegian language. When the language no longer holds, he wrote often, there will no longer be a bridge.
Secondly, he was a lifetime teetotaler who agitated passionately for personal abstinence among his fellow Norwegian-Americans and the achievement of total prohibition of alcoholic beverages. The temperance movement was broad-based and very popular among Norwegians in America, and Ager became a major leader and spokesman for the cause. He helped make temperance the most widely supported social reform issue among Norwegian-Americans and no single cause concerned them more. After the turn of the century, Ager helped found hundreds of total abstinence societies and Good Templar lodges across the upper Midwest—wherever Norwegians were clustered. My own research into the movement shows that it was much more intensive and pervasive among Norwegians in American than among the Swedes and the Finns, for example. And the Danes—like the Irish and the Germans—cared for it not at all.
Ager's third major goal was to encourage the creation of a uniquely Norwegian-American body of quality fictional writing--in the Norwegian language. There were dozens of serious writers, along with Ager, who worked at producing novels, short stories and poetry in Norwegian America in those years--including Ole Rølvaag, Simon Johnson, Dorothea Dahl, Jon Norstog, and many others. One among them would eventually surpass the rest and gain an international reputation for his work--that was Ole E. Rølvaag, the professor of norsk at St. Olaf College, and Ager's close friend. Ager's own fictional production is reckoned as being, on the whole, nearly as good as Rølvaag's best--and Ager was surely the most talented short story writer among Norwegian-Americans.
Ager was the first Norwegian-American writer to be published by a major publishing house in Norway--Aschehoug, in fact—when his novel of social criticism, Kristus for Pilatus, came out in Oslo in 1911. His major novels Gamlelandets Sønner and Hundeøine were also first published in Norway in the later 1920's. (Both of the last two are available in excellent English translations, should you want to sample Ager's fiction, but can't read it in the original: Hundeøine in English is called I Sit Alone. Gamlelandets Sønner was issued [in 1983] with the title Sons of the Old Country, translated by the late Trygve Ager, Waldemar's son, who also lived most of his life here in Eau Claire.
These were his great driving passions to which he gave unstinting effort.
Ager also lent his support to a wide variety of liberal and even radical reform movements in the upper Midwest of his time, which sought to improve conditions for farmers and laborers. He staunchly advocated the progressive reform goals of Robert M. LaFollette here in Wisconsin, the cooperative marketing movement, and the socialistic Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota, for example.
A scan of Ager's editorials in the first decade of the 20th century shows him also to have been consistently supportive of women's suffrage and equal rights for women. Such a stance set him apart from many other editors, public officials and Lutheran churchmen in Norwegian America. He was ever quick to publicize the rapid strides which the suffrage movement in Norway was making, ahead of the American one, where women had got the right to vote already in 1913 [U.S. women were enfranchised in 1920]. He urged Norwegian- American women to become politically involved, as women were doing in Norway, and he encouraged the growth of women's suffrage groups among them.
But the common threads that run through Ager's reformist impulses are those of democratic liberalism and moral improvement intertwined with Norwegian ethnic solidarity and cultural retention in America. He stood for bicultural pluralism within the American society, with political loyalty to the American nation and cultural loyalty to Norway.
Norwegian-American cultural and linguistic retention bloomed between the 1890's and World War I; Norwegian America was never more vibrantly ethnic—in dozens of cities of the upper Midwest like Eau Claire, and across the rural countryside, wherever Norwegians were clustered. Continuing mass immigration from Norway in those years gave a steady infusion of fresh Norwegianness to these older settlement regions which also helped keep the language and culture alive.
Over a million Americans used the Norwegian language in their daily lives in those decades: in their homes, churches and social circles—even often in their workplaces. Over 3,000 Lutheran church congregations used Norwegian as the sole language of worship and the readership of Norwegian-language publications was at an all-time high. Some 600,000 homes received at least one Norwegian newspaper in 1910, for example.
But despite the optimism for permanent language retention in this subculture, it was to be a short-lived "golden age"—shorter than Waldemar Ager or any of the other leaders of the group could have imagined.
The dream of a permanent Norwegian subculture in America was too impossibly visionary, likely, despite the arduous encouragement of preservationists like Ager, and would have slowly died out as successive American-born generations became increasingly Americanized. But its demise was greatly hastened by a new, national opposition to foreign ethnic retention among the native American masses after 1914. America's entry into World War I gave rise to the most wide-spread hysteria against non-English speaking minority groups that this country has ever seen. National campaigns for "100% Americanism", the censorship of the foreign language press, and a pervasive "Speak English!" movement hastened the end of Norwegian America in just a matter of years. German Americans bore the brunt of the intolerance of the times, of course, but the irrational national crusade against foreign cultures washed over onto Norwegian Americans as well.
Ager outspokenly protested the foolishness of it all, but he and the other leaders of Norwegian America couldn't stem the tide.
Into the 1920's, the maintenanceof Norwegian declined rapidly in every phase and institution of Norwegian-American life. The churches increasingly shifted to English, the readership of Norwegian publications dropped off sharply, and ethnic associations like the Sons of Norway and the bygdelags increasingly began to use English in their meetings—all to show the cultural loyalty to America that the larger society in this country now demanded.
Timorous Norwegian-American parents, in ever-growing numbers, now encouraged their children to Americanize fully--fearful that any signs of foreignness might stigmatize them in the larger American society and hamper their chances for future success in life.
The generation of Norwegian-Americans that came of age in the 1930's was almost totally Americanized--in speech, behavior and cultural attitudes. They were not only largely ignorant of the Norwegian language and heritage, but were often ashamed of this background as well. The "golden age" was gone forever.
Waldemar Ager lived on to witness his great causes disintegrate around him. Prohibition had proved a failure, Norwegian-American literature had no future since fewer and fewer could read it, and the language bridge to Norway no longer held.
But Ager remained a fighter to the end, as his writings show. Ager, furthermore, seemed to delight in a fight—even thought he knew it to be hopeless. He was, perhaps, too much of a Christian idealist and visionary—but he never became bitter over defeat, for he had the redeeming quality of seeing life ironically, with humor.
It seems to me that even though his great causes ultimately failed, he was not a failure. He lived life fully, exhuberantly, and purposefully—and seemingly took a great deal of pleasure in all his labors. He left a legacy of having tried to do his best for his people in their transition to a new land. His legacy is also an extraordinary body of writings, both fictional and journalistic, which attest to a time of heightened achievement and cultural creativity by the Norwegian people in America.
Which brings me back full circle to the spry little old man whom I met as a child. His heyday was behind him then, as was the Norwegian America in which he had played such an important formative role. Perhaps that boy from Frederikstad was the most interesting Norwegian who ever migrated to America.


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The Most Wanted List for New Jersey, compared with other states, can be especially grisly. For whatever reason(s), New Jersey seems to give rise to unusually violent felons. They are often considered armed and extremely dangerous.
Although the state has a well deserved reputation for organized crime (think The Sopranos HBO show, based on the DeCavalcante Crime Family), there are also persons Wanted By the FBI who committed crimes stemming from political passions.
New Jersey Most Wanted Fugitives
Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur), a former member of The Black Liberation Army, was convicted of murdering of a police officer in 1973. She later escaped from a Clinton, New Jersey prison where she was serving a life sentence and is thought to be living in Cuba, as of 2021.
Sometimes the FBI will even ramp up the search for a Most Wanted individual long after they first appear on the list. For example, a woman named Donna Borup originally from New Jersey has been wanted since 1981 for allegedly throwing acid at the face of a Port Authority Police officer in John F. Kennedy Airport while she participated in an anti-apartheid protest at the Airport. Although the incident happened more than 40 years ago, the search was highlighted in 2019 in connection with Police Weed.
The following are some of the more dangerous Most Wanted individuals in Hunterdon County, the state of New Jersey and the United States. If you see them, do not try and apprehend them yourself as they are most likely armed and dangerous. Instead call the Hunterdon County Sheriff at 908-788-1213.
George Wright
Wanted for: Murder
Wanted by: New Jersey Department of Corrections
Aliases: Larry Burgess, Reverend Burgess
Complexion: Dark
Additional Information: George Wright committed murder on November 23, 1962, and was sentenced to prison on February 15, 1963. On August 22, 1970, Wright escaped from prison and has been at large since.
SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
Joanne Chesimard
Wanted for: Murder, Assault with Intent to Kill, Unlawful Possession of Weapons, Aid and Abet, Robbery, Additional Sentences for Armed Criminals
Aliases: Joanne Byron, Joanne Chesterman, Mary Davis, Josephine Henderson, Justine Henderson, Barbara Odoms, Assata Shakur
Date of Birth: July 16, 1947
Additional Information: Joanne Chesimard is wanted for committing the following crimes: 1 count of Murder, 1 count of Assault with Intent to Kill, 1 count of Unlawful Possession of Weapons, 1 count of Aid and Abet, 1 count of Robbery, and 1 count of Additional Sentences for Armed Criminals.
Allen Poindexter
Wanted for: Theft, Theft by Deception, CDS/Possession, Conspiracy
Aliases: Andre Hardrick, David Johnson, David Poindexter, Alexander Wilson, Raymond Wilss
Date of Birth: March 23, 1960
Additional Information: Allen Poindexter is wanted for 3 counts of Theft, 1 count of Theft by Deception, 1 count of CDS/Possession, and 1 count of Conspiracy. Poindexter is wanted since July 27, 1990, by the New Jersey Department of Corrections.
Edna Anderson
Wanted for: Manufacturing, Distributing and Dispensing of Drugs
Additional Information: Edna Anderson is wanted for 2 counts of Manufacturing, Distributing, and Dispensing of Drugs since March 20, 1976.
Ignacio M Cosme
Wanted for: Burglary, Distribution of Drugs on School Property
Aliases: Felix Antonio, I Marcano Cosme, Ignacio Marcano, Phillip Nian, Felix Nunez, Juan Rodriguez, Juan Salgado, Felix Tejadadleon, Juan Tejadadleon, Elena William
Complexion: Light
Race: Hispanic
Additional Information: Ignacio M Cosme is wanted by the New Jersey Department of Corrections for being charged with 1 count of Burglary and 2 counts of Distribution of Drugs on School Property.
what to do if you see one of these fugitives
This Hunterdon County New Jersey Most Wanted List posts the top 50-100 fugitive criminals on the run.
Many, if not most should be considered armed and dangerous. If you come across them, do not attempt to apprehend them yourself.
Instead, immediately call the Hunterdon County Sheriff's Department at 908-788-1213.
Rudolfo Arroyo
Wanted for: Manufacture, Distribution and Dispense of Drugs
Aliases: Darling Polanco
Date of Birth: February 13, 1960
Additional Information: Rudolfo Arroyo is wanted by the New Jersey Department of Corrections since September 22, 1997, for committing 2 counts of Manufacture, Distribution, and Dispense of Drugs and escaping prison.
Benjamin Delcerro
Wanted for: Burglary, Armed or Causes Injury
Additional Information: After being apprehended for committing armed burglary, Benjamin Delcerro escaped from custody on June 26, 1999, and has been missing since.
Jesus M Cubano
Wanted for: Manufacture, Distribution and Dispense of Drugs, CDS/ Heroin, Conspiracy, Controlled Dangerous Substances
Aliases: Carrillo, Carlos
Date of Birth: December 14, 1981
Additional Information: Jesus M Cubano, also known as Carlos Carrillo, is wanted for being charged with the Manufacture, Distribution, and Dispense of Drugs, CDS/ Heroin, Conspiracy, and Controlled Dangerous Substances since July 10, 2011.
Joseph C Smith
Wanted for: Weapons/Unlawful Possession of Weapons, Criminal Mischief - Damage Property, Burglary-Enter Structure, Robbery
Additional Information: Joseph C Smith committed the aforementioned crimes on dates ranging from June 24, 2014, to December 3, 2018. Smith has been on the run since June 15, 2021.
Luis H Hernandez
Wanted for: Controlled Dangerous Substances/Heroin
Aliases: John Doe, Heriberto Flores, Ramiro Garcia, Flores Hernandez, Garcia Ramiro
Additional Information: Luis H Hernandez is wanted by the New Jersey Department of Corrections for being charged with Controlled Dangerous Substances/Heroin since September 29, 2017.
do you recognize any of these most wanted criminals?
This is a very long list and changes daily.
If it is not safe to call right away, make a note where you last saw them, what they were wearing and call as soon as it is safe to do so.
Tyriek J Bullock
Wanted for: Weapons/Possession of Firearm for Unlawful Purposes
Additional Information: Tyriek J Bullock was sentenced to prison on March 1, 2019, for his crimes, however, he managed to escape and has been on the run since November 15, 2021.
Nelson V Amador
Wanted for: Robbery
Date of Birth: February 8, 1977
Nationality: Hispanic
Additional Information: Nelson V Amador is wanted in New Jersey since August 18, 1997, for committing 1 count of Robbery.
Oderi Y Caldwell
Wanted for: Aggravated Assault, Endangering an Injured Victim, Robbery
Aliases: Gangus Khan
Additional Information: Oderi Y Caldwell, also known as Gangus Khan, is wanted since April 12, 2019, by the New Jersey Department of Corrections for the aforementioned crimes.
Ogbonna T Gordon
Wanted for: Aggravated Assault Causing Serious Bodily Injury, Theft/Unlawful Taking, Disposes of Movable Property
Additional Information: Ogbonna T Gordon has been on the run since escaping from custody on December 2, 2021, after committing the aforementioned crimes on March 2013 and September 2015.
Yousef M Ijbara
Wanted for: Weapons/Unlawful Possession of Firearms, Conspiracy, Robbery/Carjacking, Robbery-Threat of Bodily Injury
Aliases: I Jbara, Yousef
Date of Birth: August 12, 1998
Additional Information: Yousef M Ijbara, also known as I Jbara, Yousef is wanted by the New Jersey Department of Corrections for committing the following crimes: Weapons/Unlawful Possession of Firearms, Conspiracy, Robbery/Carjacking, and Robbery-Threat of Bodily Injury.
Can you get a reward for turning any of these men or women in?
Often there are rewards for turning a fugitive in. Check each listing for reward information.
If it is not safe to call right away, make a note where you last saw them, what they were wearing and call as soon as it is safe to do so. Make sure you give the police your name so that you can claim a reward if they are caught.
Walter Whited
Wanted for: Robbery, Burglary
Aliases: T
Date of Birth: April 7, 1988
Eye Color: Hazel
Additional Information: Walter Whited was charged with 1 count of Robbery and 1 count of Burglary on May 4, 2018. After being apprehended, he escaped from the facility and has been on the run.
Kevin A Kohlmyer
Wanted for: Robbery-Threat of Bodily Injury
Additional Information: Kevin A Kohlmyer was apprehended for one count of Robbery-Threat of Bodily Injury on October 31, 2018, however, he escaped the facilities shortly and is wanted by the New Jersey Department of Corrections.
Hector L Cruz
Wanted for: Contolled Dangerous Substances/Heroin, Manufacture, Distribution, and Dispense of Contolled Dangerous Substances, Weapons/Unlawful Possession:Rifle/Shotgun, Prostitution/Promoting Prostitution
Aliases: Hector, L
Additional Information: Hector L Cruz is wanted by the New Jersey Department of Corrections for being charged with the following crimes: Controlled Dangerous Substances/Heroin, Manufacture, Distribution, and Dispense of Controlled Dangerous Substances, Weapons/Unlawful Possession of Firearms, and Prostitution/Promoting Prostitution.
Wilfredo Rodriguez
Wanted for: Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Possession of a Weapon, Hindering Apprehension
Wanted by: New Jersey State Police
Aliases: Chari Wilfredo, Robert Ortiz, Wilfredo R. Santana
Date of Birth: November 8, 1963
Additional Information: Wilfredo Rodriguez, also known as Chari Wilfredo/Robert Ortiz/Wilfredo R. Santana is wanted for committing Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Possession of a Weapon, and Hindering Apprehension. He also has tattoos on his upper right arm
Marciano J. Sanchez
Wanted for: Attempted Murder, Possession of a Handgun Without a Permit, Possession of a Firearm With the Purpose to Use It Against Another, Aggravated Assault With a Deadly Weapon
Aliases: Marciano Jimenez Sanchez
Place of Birth: Mexico
Date of Birth: January 2, 1984
Complexion: Medium
Nationality: Mexican
Additional Information: Marciano J. Sanchez aka Marciano Jimenez Sanchez is wanted for attempting to murder. Sanchez is known to have violent tendencies regarding murder with weapons. He should be considered armed and very dangerous.
Do not establish eye contact
Fugitives that are on the run are always on the lookout for people who may be eyeing them strangely. Even innocent people, if they appear to be looking at a fugitive too closely or accidentally point their way, may find themselves to be the next victim of a dangerous and frightened criminal hiding from law enforcement.
If you recognize one of these fugitives, contact the local police in Flemington or the Hunterdon County Sheriff at 908-788-1213, but do not stare at them too intently. Be discreet.
Wanted for: Murder of NJ State Trooper, Escape
Aliases: Barbara Odoms, Mary Davis, Justine Henderson, Joanne Byron, Josephine Henderson, Assata Shakur, Joanne Chesterman
Additional Information: JoAnne Chesimard goes by many aliases, such as Barbara Odoms, Mary Davis, Justine Henderson, Joanne Byron, Josephine Henderson, Assata Shakur, and Joanne Chesterman. She is wanted for murdering an NJ State Trooper and escaping prison afterward. Chesimard has a round scar on her left knee and bullet wounds under her right arm and left shoulder.
Pedro A. Gonzalez
Wanted for: Murder, Kidnapping, Aggravated Assault, Possession of a Controlled Dangerous Weapon, Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose
Aliases: Pedro A. Gonzales
Date of Birth: October 20, 1960
Additional Information: Pedro A. Gonzalez is wanted by the New Jersey State Police for committing Murder, and other serious crimes. Gonzalez has been wanted since 1990.
Jose Escobar
Wanted for: Manslaughter (2nd Degree), Absconding from Parole
Wanted by: New Jersey State Parole
Additional Information: Jose Escobar is wanted by the New Jersey State Parole for being charged with Manslaughter (2nd Degree) and Absconding from Parole.
John Fessler
Wanted for: Robbery, Distribution of Controlled Dangerous Substances (4th Degree), Conspiracy, Absconding from Parole
Aliases: James Bickerstaff, Alber Ferrante, Jack Fessler, Spider Fessler, Joseph Green, James Hamrick, Anthony Scarano
Additional Information: John Fessler, who also goes by various aliases such as James Bickerstaff, Alber Ferrante, Jack Fessler, Spider Fessler, Joseph Green, James Hamrick, and Anthony Scarano is wanted for the felonies Robbery, Distribution of Controlled Dangerous Substances (4th Degree), Conspiracy, and Absconding from Parole.
Negus Martin
Wanted for: Possession, Robbery (1st Degree), Absconding from Parole
Aliases: A. Negus Martin
Date of Birth: April 23, 1978
Additional Information: Negus Martin aka A. Negus Martin is wanted by the New Jersey State Parole for committing the following crimes: Possession, Robbery (1st Degree), and Absconding from Parole.
will you be called as a witness if you turn in a fugitive?
People who turn in a wanted fugitive, or someone wanted by the police for questioning, may find themselves in an awkward position. While they may not be called to testify, and it is most likely that the captured person may never know their name, they will forever be in a public record and their name could someday be accidentally disclosed.
To be safe, unless you really want to receive a reward, and if it is substantial enough to be worth it, it is best to remain anonymous. You have that right.
Luis Riofrio
Wanted for: Robbery (1st Degree), Aggravated Assault (4th Degree), Absconding from Parole
Aliases: Luis A. Riofrio, Jose Martinez, Jose Rodriguez, Jose Riofrio, Jose Alarey
Additional Information: Luis Riofrio, aka Luis A. Riofrio, Jose Martinez, Jose Rodriguez, Jose Riofrio, Jose Alarey, is wanted by the New Jersey State Parole for being charged with Robbery (1st Degree), Aggravated Assault (4th Degree), and Absconding from Parole.
Alvin Roman
Wanted for: Aggravated Assault (3rd Degree), Kidnapping (2nd Degree), Conspiracy, Absconding from Parole
Aliases: Vincent Contin, Franci Garci, Gregorio Garcia, Francis Garcia, Frank Cabrera Garcia, Gregorio Ortiz, Vincente Contin, Vicente Contin, Garcia Cabrera, Charlie Garcia, Franca Garcia, Franci Garcia, Francis Garcia
Date of Birth: January 15, 1969
Additional Information: Alvin Roman, who goes by aliases like Vincent Contin, Franci Garci, Gregorio Garcia, Francis Garcia, Frank Cabrera Garcia, Gregorio Ortiz, Vincente Contin, Vicente Contin, Garcia Cabrera, Charlie Garcia, Franca Garcia, Franci Garcia, Francis Garcia, is wanted for committing the following crimes: Aggravated Assault (3rd Degree), Kidnapping (2nd Degree), Conspiracy, and Absconding from Parole.
Jorge Cortez-Fuentes
Wanted for: Aggravated Sexual Assault 1st Degree (2 counts), Sexual Assault 2nd Degree (2 counts), Endangering Welfare of a Child (2 counts)
Wanted by: Morris County New Jersey
Additional Information: Jorge Cortez-Fuentes is most wanted in New Jersey for committing Aggravated Sexual Assault 1st Degree (2 counts), Sexual Assault 2nd Degree (2 counts), and Endangering the Welfare of a Child (2 counts).
Phoukham Khenthasouvannay
Wanted for: Criminal Sexual Assault on Child 2nd Degree, Endangering the Welfare of a Child
Aliases: Phoo
Place of Birth: Laos
Date of Birth: July 6, 1969
Additional Information: Phoukham Khenthasouvannay (Phoo) is wanted in New Jersey for being charged with Criminal Sexual Assault on Child 2nd Degree and Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
Juan Ramirez-Rendon
Wanted for: Attempted Murder, Carjacking, Kidnapping
Aliases: Manuel Ramos
Place of Birth: Colombia
Additional Information: Juan Ramirez-Rendon, aka Manuel Ramos, is wanted for being charged with Attempted Murder, Carjacking, and Kidnapping in New Jersey. He has a tattoo on his left finger that says "LOVE".
Should you turn them in or not?
But should you turn them in? What if you are wrong and the person you turn in is an innocent look-a-like?
It's always a tough decision. You may be saving savings life, or you could be ruining someone else's. Good luck.
Agostin Ramos-Ortiz
Wanted for: Attempted Murder
Additional Information: Agostin Ramos-Ortiz is a Hispanic man wanted in New Jersey for being charged with attempted murder.
Abdallah Sahili
Wanted for: Sexual Assault, Endangering the Welfare of a Child
Additional Information: Abdallah Sahili has a scar on his left ankle.
Carlos Urbina
Wanted for: Sexual Assault 2nd Degree, Endangering Welfare of a Child
Place of Birth: Chile
Additional Information: Carlos Urbina is wanted for being charged with Sexual Assault 2nd Degree and Endangering the Welfare of a Child. His last known address was 9064 Palisade Plaza, Cliffside Park, NJ.
Gerardo Fernandez
Wanted for: Aggravated Assault, Terroristic Threats, Contempt-Violation of Court Order
Additional Information: Gerardo Fernandez is charged with Aggravated Assault, Terroristic Threats, and Contempt-Violation of Court Order. His last known address was 5 William Street, Dover, NJ.
Luis Galeano
Wanted for: Robbery, Aggravated Assault Causing Bodily Injury with Deadly Weapon
Wanted by: Mercer County
Aliases: Arnaldo Quintana-Jusin
Additional Information: Luis Galeano, also known as Arnaldo Quintana-Jusin is wanted for committing Robbery and Aggravated Assault Causing Bodily Injury with Deadly Weapon.
who are the worst of the worst?
Not every fugitive is a dangerous person.
Some may even be innocent of the crime they are being sought for.
But the fact is that if you come across one of the wanted men or women you don't know for sure if they are good or bad, and it is not for you to judge.
The fact is that it is every American's duty to support law enforcement and their effort to keep your community safe for innocent men, women and children.
If the fugitive is innocent, they will get their day in court. That's all we can hope for.
Reynaldo Hernandez
Wanted for: Aggravated Assault – knowing and purposely causing bodily injury (to a victim using a machete knife)
Date of Birth: November 15, 1984
Additional Information: Reynaldo Hernandez is most wanted in New Jersey for being charged with Aggravated Assault – knowing and purposely causing bodily injury (to a victim using a machete knife).
Wilson Estrada
Wanted for: Unlawful Possession of a Weapon - Handgun
Date of Birth: June 17, 1988
Additional Information: Wilson Estrada was charged with Unlawful Possession of a Weapon - Handgun in New Jersey.
Joseph Delasalas
Wanted for: First Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child Under 13 Years Old, First Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child Between 13 and 16 Years Old, Second Degree Sexual Assault of a Child Over the Age of 4, Second Degree Sexual Assault With Supervisory, Second Degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child, Third Degree Aggravated Criminal Sexual Contact, and Fourth Degree Criminal Sexual Contact.
Wanted by: Monmouth County
Additional Information: Joseph Delasalas is accused of sexually assaulting a juvenile female from the time she was 10 years old between 2002-2011.
Willens Geslin
Wanted for: First Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault, Second Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault, and Third Degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
Date of Birth: September 7, 1971
Additional Information: Geslin is indicted of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl in 2011 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
George Kavouris
Wanted for: Four Counts of Second Degree Theft by Deception, Three Counts of Third Degree Theft by Deception, One Count of Second Degree Bad Checks for Knowingly Writing a Bad Check, and Two Counts of Third Degree Bad Checks for Writing Two Checks
Additional Information: Kavouris is indicted of scamming at least seven investors out of nearly $1 million in cash, between June 2009 and January 2010, in a stock investment scheme the victims never received any stock certificates or portfolio statements indicating where their money was invested.
what is a sex offender?
A convicted sex offender could be a young man who had an affair with a fifteen or sixteen year old girl when he was a young man himself... under twenty years old even.
On the other hand he could be a forty-year old man who violently raped a five year old child, boy or girl.
He could be an old grandfatherly type who innocently, or not so innocently, exposed himself in his car to a woman in a Walmart parking lot.
Or it could be a young female teacher who had a crush on a teenage boy and sent him nude images.
The bottom line is that sex offenders come in all ages, both sexes, and every one has a different story... some that are understandable... others that are disgustingly criminal.
It is not our job to judge. The law is the law. If you see one of the convcted sex offenders on this page who are wanted by law enforcement, give the Hunterdon County Sheriff a call at 908-788-1213.
Jerry Lin
Wanted for: Two Counts of Second Degree Extortion and Third Degree Terroristic Threats
Additional Information: Jerry Lin is indicted of threatening to kill the family of the chief executive officer of a Howell Township-based mortgage company, while also demanding cash, cars, jewelry, and guns.
Martin Luis
Wanted for: First Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault, Second Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault, and Third Degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child
Additional Information: Luis is accused of sexually assaulting a girl between the ages of 6 and 12 from 2002 to 2007.
Aldrim Matias-Escobar
Wanted for: Second Degree Sexual Assault, Second Degree Aggravated Sexual Assault, and Third Degree Endangering the Welfare of a Child
Date of Birth: May 1, 1983
Additional Information: Matias-Escobar is indicted of sexually assaulting a woman as she was sleeping in her bedroom.
Stephanie N. Machuado
Wanted for: Second Degree Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine, Third Degree Possession of Heroin, First Degree Possession With Intent to Distribute Heroin, Third Degree Possession of Cocaine, and First Degree Possession With Intent to Distribute Cocaine
Additional Information: Stephanie N. Machuado was arrested as part of a narcotics interdiction operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office dubbed "Operation Honeycomb" which led to the arrest of 47 people for their roles in this multi-state narcotics enterprise network.
Francisco Morales-Chispe
Wanted for: Second Degree Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine and Heroin
Additional Information: Morales-Chispe was arrested as part of a narcotics interdiction operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office dubbed "Operation Honeycomb" which led to the arrest of 47 people for their roles in this multi-state narcotics enterprise network.
What is the likelihood a fugitive can remain free and never be caught?
Often times we see Most Wanted listings from 20+ years ago and we wonder how it is that a person who is wanted can get on with his or her life and never get caught.
In reality, this is usually unlikely.
Humans make mistakes.
They get lonely being on the run and get in touch with family or friends, or go back to an area where people recognize them. Or, if they are criminals, they make the mistake of getting caught at a new crime.
But then there are those who flee to another country, get a new identity and never get in trouble again.
And then there are those, who because of the dangerous world they live in, end up being killed, their body dumped, and are never heard from again.
Mirtha J. Santiago
Wanted for: One Count of Second Degree Conspiracy to Commit Robbery, Three Counts of First Degree Robbery, Three Counts of Criminal Restraint, One Count of Fourth Degree Unlawful Possession of a Weapon, Two Counts of Third Degree Unlawful Possession of a Weapon and and Second Degree Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose
Additional Information: Mirtha J. Santiago is wanted for a series of armed robberies in New Jersey where she and an unidentified male accomplice entered several cash-checking establishments and other businesses with weapons.
Juan A. Manzano
Wanted for: Aggravated Sexual Assault
Wanted by: Ocean County Sheriff
Additional Information: Juan A. Manzano's last known address was Saint Joseph, MO.
Neetu Rani
Wanted for: Kidnapping
Additional Information: Neetu Rani's last known address was Toms River, NJ.
Blas Rosas
Wanted for: Aggravated Assault, Possession of Handgun, Failing to Appear
Additional Information: Blas Rosas' last known address was Lakewood, NJ.
Additional Information: Marciano J. Sanchez was last spotted in Queens, NY.
What are the methods wanted criminals use to not get caught?
Here are some of the things fugitives do to not get caught:
Get a fresh identity and stay out of trouble.
Move to another country wher no one knows them.
Remove their fingerprints by disfiguring them.
Have plastic surgery done.
Undergo a sex change.
Move to a very rural area and live off the land.
Edgardo Timoteo Amador-Sorto
Wanted for: Aggravated Assault and Endangering the Welfare of a Child
Additional Information: Edgardo Timoteo Amador-Sorto was last seen in Stafford, NJ.
JOSE RODOLFO VILLARREAL-HERNANDEZ
Wanted for: Interstate Stalking and Conspiracy to Commit Murder-for-Hire
Wanted by: FBI
Aliases: El Gato
Build: Average
Complexion: Lt. Brown
Race: Mexican
Reward: $1,000,000
Additional Information: Jose Rodolfo Villarreal-Hernandez, wanted for allegedly directing individuals to track and murder a man in Southlake, Texas, has been added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. A reward of up to $1 million is available for information leading to his arrest. Villarreal-Hernandez, age 42, also known as "El Gato," is believed to hold an active leadership position in the Beltran Leyva Drug Trafficking Organization within the region of San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. He is also believed to be responsible for numerous murders in Mexico. The victim of the Texas murder, 43, was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of his vehicle outside an upscale shopping center in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb on May 22, 2013. His wife was standing near the driver's side door when her husband was killed. And the brazen ambush occurred in the early evening hours, while the center was full of shoppers. Villarreal-Hernandez is 42 years old. He has black hair and brown eyes and stands 5 feet 4 inches tall. He is believed to weigh about 165 pounds and is likely hiding in Mexico. Villarreal-Hernandez should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.
YULAN ADONAY ARCHAGA CARIAS
Wanted for: Racketeering Conspiracy (RICO); Cocaine Importation Conspiracy; Possession of Machine Guns; Conspiracy to Possess Machine Guns
Aliases: "Porky", Alexander Mendoza
Place of Birth: San Pedro Sula, Cortes, Honduras
Date of Birth: February 13, 1982, January 21, 1982
Complexion: Light Brown
Nationality: Honduran
Reward: $100,000
Additional Information: Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias, the alleged leader of MS-13 for all of Honduras, has been added to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, and the FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to his arrest. The alleged leader of the violent MS-13 transnational criminal organization for all of Honduras has been added to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to his arrest. Yulan Adonay Archaga Carias, also known as Alexander Mendoza and "Porky," has been charged in the Southern District of New York with racketeering conspiracy, possession of machine guns, and cocaine importation conspiracy. "He's wanted for, among other crimes, facilitating the transportation of multi-ton loads of cocaine through Honduras into the United States, as well as possession and conspiracy to possess machine guns that were used by gang members to support international drug trafficking," said Supervisory Special Agent Nick Durgin. Archaga Carias is also allegedly responsible for ordering and participating in the murder of several rival gang members and others associated with MS-13. In August 2018, a Honduran tribunal convicted Archaga Carias of conspiracy and other charges and sentenced him to a lengthy prison sentence. He violently escaped from Honduran custody in February 2020 when approximately 20 armed gunmen in police and military uniforms stormed a courthouse where Archaga Carias was scheduled for a hearing. Multiple Honduran police officers were killed during the escape. Archaga Carias is believed to still be in Honduras.
BHADRESHKUMAR CHETANBHAI PATEL
Wanted for: Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel, a 26-year-old wanted for the April 2015 murder of his wife in Maryland.
Place of Birth: Kantrodi Ta Viramgam, Gujarat, India
Additional Information: Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel is wanted for allegedly killing his wife by striking her multiple times with an object while they were both working at a donut shop in Hanover, Maryland, on April 12, 2015. A local arrest warrant was issued in the District Court of Maryland for Anne Arundel County on April 13, 2015, and Patel was charged with first degree murder, second degree murder, first degree assault, second degree assault, and dangerous weapon with intent to injure. A federal arrest warrant was issued in the United States District Court, District of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, on April 20, 2015, after Patel was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
OMAR ALEXANDER CARDENAS
Hair: Dark Brown
Build: Heavy
Place of Birth: California
Weight: 250-300
Complexion: White
Additional Information: Omar Alexander Cardenas is wanted for his alleged involvement in the murder of a man that occurred on August 15, 2019, in a large outdoor shopping center in Sylmar, California, immediately next to Los Angeles. It is alleged that he fired several rounds from a semi-automatic handgun at the victim, striking him in the head and causing his death. A local arrest warrant was issued for Cardenas on April 3, 2020, in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County after he was charged locally with murder. A federal arrest warrant from the United States District Court, Central District of California, was issued for Cardenas on September 2, 2021, after he was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. NOTE: Cardenas often has a beard and wears prescription glasses.
Can you trust a wanted fugitive?
The answer is no. Under no circumstances can you trust a wanted fugitive.
A person on the run from law enforcement is on the run because they fear getting caught and being locked up. Right or wrong, they are selfishly putting their happiness first, and before all else... you included.
If they think that you are a threat to their freedom in any way, then you are a theat to their very existence as a free man or woman.
For that reason, and that reason alone, never trust a wanted person. Stay far, far away from any personal relationship with them.
Alexis Flores
Wanted for: Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution - Kidnapping, Murder
Aliases: Mario F. Roberto, Alex Contreras, Alesis Contreras
Build: Slim
Occupation: Handyman
Place of Birth: Honduras
Date of Birth: July 18, 1975, July 18, 1982, September 15, 1980, July 17, 1982
Weight: 130 to 140 pounds
Reward: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading directly to the arrest of Alexis Flores.
Additional Information: Alexis Flores is wanted for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder of a five-year-old girl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The girl was reported missing in late July of 2000, and was later found strangled to death in a nearby apartment in early August of 2000.
GERARDO CRUZ-HERNANDEZ
Wanted for: Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution – Forcible Rape, Rape of a Child, Statutory Sexual Assault, Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse, Unlawful Contact with a Minor, Indecent Assault, Simple Assault, Recklessly Endangering Another Person, Terroristic Threats, Corruption of Minors
Date of Birth: November 22, 1983, November 22, 1987
Additional Information: A state arrest warrant was issued for Cruz-Hernandez by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, County of Montgomery, Norristown, Pennsylvania, on January 17, 2014, after he was charged with multiple counts of forcible rape, rape of a child, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, terroristic threats, and corruption of minors.
GREGORY ROBERT WHITEHEAD
Wanted for: Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution - Sexual Exploitation of Children; Soliciting for Child Prostitution; Inducement of Child Prostitution; Criminal Attempt to Commit Sexual Assault; Sexual Assault (Failure to Appear)
Hair: Blond (mostly bald)
Additional Information: In October of 2007, Gregory Whitehead allegedly lured two young girls to his home under the ruse of using them for housecleaning services. It was reported to the Colorado Springs Police Department that two teenage girls were sexually assaulted by Whitehead. While at his Denver home, Whitehead allegedly served the girls alcohol, took nude and graphic photos of them, and paid them for their sexual favors. Whitehead was arrested in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for the following crimes: sexual exploitation of children; soliciting for child prostitution; inducement of child prostitution; criminal attempt to commit sexual assault; and sexual assault. On January 4, 2008, Whitehead failed to appear at a hearing and the state district court issued a failure to appear warrant for his arrest.
GUSTAVO CRUZ
Wanted for: Sexual Exploitation of a Child
Aliases: : Gustavo Adolfo Cruz-Hernandez, Gustavo Cruz-Aguilar
Occupation: Migrant Worker
Place of Birth: Veracruz, Mexico
Additional Information: Gustavo Cruz is wanted for allegedly molesting an 11-year old child and recording the alleged molestation on his cell phone in Indianapolis, Indiana from January 1, 2016 to March 29, 2017.
ERIK KRISTIAN MOLLER
Wanted for: Unlawful Flight To Avoid Prosecution - Failure To Appear (Lewd Act Upon a Child - 2 Counts)
Occupation: Aviation Fuel
Place of Birth: Arcadia, California
Additional Information: Scars and Marks: Moller has a 3-inch birthmark on his lower back. He has a tattoo of a falling angel on an upper arm; and a tattoo of an Indian sitting on a horse on an upper arm. He has a scar on his upper left arm. ... Erik Kristian Moller, a convicted child molester, is wanted for failing to appear for sentencing in San Luis Obispo, California, in 2003. Between the years of 1997 and 2000, Moller was entrusted to care for his female victim on almost a weekly basis while she was ages 10 through 14. He gave the girl drugs and/or alcohol prior to the molestations. On December 18, 2002, Moller was convicted of two counts of lewd act upon a child. Moller was released on bail until sentencing. On March 18, 2003, Moller failed to appear for sentencing related to the lewd act upon a child conviction. Moller was sentenced in absentia to ten years in state prison. On March 19, 2003, a felony bench warrant was issued for Moller after he was charged with failure to appear.
If someone is on the run for a long time, won't the police eventually forget about them?
The answer is yes, and no.
If a fugitive has been missing for a long time, their case gone cold, the local police may eventually stop looking for them... but these days that doesn't mean anything.
You see, nowadays there is a thing called facial recognition software, and unless a person has gotten substantial surgery, including to their facial bone structure, and even changed their gait (how they stand and walk) there are cameras everywhere tracking them.
It could be years down the road, and a wanted fugitive could be attending a baseball game in a state on the other side of the country... and then BOOM!... Busted!
There are cameras everywhere now... and more are coming... and voice prints, biometric scanners, etc.
The eyes never sleep. Technology is ever more intrusive.
ELBY JESSIE HARS
Wanted for: Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution - Criminal Sexual Conduct With a Minor (Second Degree)
Aliases: Jessie Elby Hars, Elby Hars, Jessie E. Hars, Elby J. Hars
Hair: Bald / Gray
Occupation: Truck Driver
Place of Birth: Florida
Additional Information: Scars and Marks: Hars has scars on both of his arms. ... Elby Jessie Hars, a convicted child sex offender, is currently wanted for his alleged involvement in sexual activity with a minor girl. The crime occurred in Richland County, South Carolina, in 2000. A state arrest warrant was issued in April of 2000 by a Richland County General Sessions Magistrate after Hars was charged with multiple counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor (second degree).
BRUCE EMERSON SAWHILL
Wanted for: Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution - Failure to Appear (Statutory Sodomy with a Minor 1st Degree)
Aliases: John Sawhill, John C. Sawhill
Occupation: : Construction, specifically drywall installer
Place of Birth: Missouri
Date of Birth: December 24, 1952, February 24, 1952
Additional Information: Sawhill also has false teeth, possibly upper and lower. ... Bruce Emerson Sawhill, a convicted sex offender, is wanted for committing sexual acts on a minor. Approximately in 2001, Sawhill allegedly sexually assaulted a young female child on more than one occasion, in Jefferson County, Missouri. Sawhill had previously befriended the victim's parents and gained access to the victim. Sawhill was subsequently charged in Missouri with two counts of statutory sodomy and released on bond pending a trial. Sawhill failed to appear in court on the trial date.
MELCHOR DATU
Wanted for: Possession of Child Pornography; Rape of a Child With Force
Aliases: Melchor Juico Datu, Melchor Luico Datv, Javier Sanchez, Xavier Belcher, Fred Datu
Place of Birth: Butuan, Province of Agusan del Norte, Caraga Region, Philippines
Date of Birth: January 27, 1971, March 3, 1971
Race: Phillipino
Nationality: Phillipines
BALDOMERO BARRIENTOS BANUELOS
Wanted for: Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution - Murder
Aliases: "Barrientos", "Poncho", "Romeo", Baldomero Banuelos B., Baldome Banuelos-Barrientos, Baldomero Banuelos-Barrientos, Baldumero Banuelos, Baldomero B. Banuelos, Baldomero Barrient Banuelos, Baldomero Barriento Banuelos, Baldomero Banuilos, Baldomero Barrient Banuilos, Baldomero Barrientos, Baldomero Banuel Barrientos, Baldomero Banuelos Barrientos, Baldomero Bauelos-Barrientos
Height: 6 ft.
Date of Birth: October 7, 1951
Additional Information: Banuelos is missing finger joints in his left hand. He has a scar on his right hand. .... Baldomero Barrientos Banuelos is wanted for his alleged involvement in the murder of his wife. On October 14, 1993, Banuelos allegedly stabbed his wife to death in North Hollywood, California.
Erik Flores
Wanted for: Conspiracy: False Statements in Connection with the Acquisition of Firearms; Smuggling Goods from the US
Wanted by: ATF
Additional Information: On September 16, 2015, Erik Flores Elortegui was indicted in United States District Court for the District of Oregon for 18 USC 371- Conspiracy; Title 18 USC 924 (a)(1)(A) - False Statements in Connection with the Acquisition of Firearms and Title 18 USC 554 - Smuggling Goods from the United States.
Is there enough jail and prison space in the United States to hold everyone wanted by law enforcement?
The answer is no. There are only about 2.4 million beds in all of the jails and prisons in the United States, including those in Hunterdon County Jail. On any given day about 1.8 million of them are occupied by the recently arrested, those awaiting trial, and those convicted who are serving terms from 30 days to life.
On the other hand, every city and county in New Jersey, plus all of the others throughout the United States, has individuals wanted for offenses as minor as not paying fines imposed on them... all the way up to mass murder. Estimates are that the number of people with active warrants right now is well over 5 million.
So do the math... imagine how overwhelmed jails and the courts would be if every person wanted by the police were to turn themselves in all at once.
Paulo Lopez-Garcia
Aliases: El Diablo, Pablo, Pablo Enrique
Additional Information: Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Letter "L" on either arm, one inch size, Scar left calf ... On May 25, 2004, Lopez, along with a number of other accomplices, robbed a pawnshop at gunpoint in Sheridan, Colorado, which is part of the Denver Metropolitan Area. It is believed that Lopez was armed with a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. The suspects stole a large number of firearms, cash, jewelry and electronics equipment. Some of the store employees were assaulted during this incident. The suspects fled from the scene in a stolen SUV that was subsequently recovered. The suspects wore light blue bandannas and baseball caps to conceal their identities. It is believed that the suspects, with the exception of one white male, were all male Hispanics in their twenties.
Oudit Narain Seenarain
Wanted for: Rape, Falure to appear, Firearms violations
Aliases: Setnarain, Oudit; Seenorain, Oudit Narain; Seenarain, Oudit Narain; Setnarain, Oudit
Place of Birth: Guayana
Nationality: Guayana
Additional Information: Scars, Marks, Tattoos: Crown on Right Chest; Scorpion on Right Bicep ... On or about June 2005, Seenarain was arrested for federal firearms trafficking. Seenarain failed to appear for his court hearing and the Northern District of Georgia Magistrate Judge issued another arrest warrant for him. Seenarain is also wanted by the Sheriff's Office in Henry County, Georgia for Strong Arm Rape, Kidnapping and Sodomy. Considered armed and dangerous.

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Yemen: "Wearing a school uniform is no longer a dream"
Credit: YCT
In Yemen, 24 million people need humanitarian assistance and protection. Of them, 17.8 million people lack access to safe water and sanitation. As a result, people are resorting to unimproved water sources and lack adequate sanitation. This increases the risk of diarrhoeal disease, which in turn leads to deteriorating nutritional status and, in some cases, greater risk of death. Although trucked or bottled water may offer relatively safer water sources, prices have risen considerably – up to 45 per cent in some areas.
But not having access to clean water impacts not just people's health, but their ability to lead a normal life. Rashad, a villager Najd Al-Barad, tells us that his village had seen many instances where women had to leave the house to bring water for their family, often leaving babies unattended. Because the journey is often very long, they would come back to find that their babies had passed away. Similarly, young children are often forced to help their parents carry clean water and every day, and as a result they often miss school.
The Yemen Humanitarian Fund (YHF) has been providing vital funds to local partners to bring clean water to local communities. On World Water Day, Amani and Abdullah's story tell us how access to clean water can be truly life-changing.
Amani's story
When water and food are short, Yemeni girls stay at home to to help their families. Thanks to the YHF, Amani and girls from her village are able to go back to school. Credit: YCT
Amani [1] is a 9-year old girl from a marginalized group living in Shareef, a village of Alzubia which has been hit by drought most of the year and is far away from the nearest water well. People use donkeys or travel long distances on foot to fetch water.
Amani told us how she would feel sad seeing young girls wearing school clothes and laughing on their way to school while she was walking long distances with her daily companion, the family donkey, to look for water: "If my family did not need me to collect water every day, I could go to school and prove that marginalized people can study and succeed like the rest of the children".
But things for Amani have changed. Her village was one of those selected by Al-Atta for Relief & Development (ARD), a Yemen-based development association, to be equipped with water networks thanks to funding from the YHF. A representative from ARD explained to Amani that the project would bring water to the village and promised her to help her enroll in school despite her late age. Amani was shocked and did not believe this was possible.
During the project implementation, ARD staff got in touch with Amani's family and the village school, and they were able to persuade the school to accept her as a regular student. Amani is now studying in the first grade and no longer dreams of wearing school uniform and going with her classmates on the school road. Now her dream is to continue studying as a doctor in the future to prove that marginalized girls can do just as well as other girls.
Abdullah's story
Women are often forced to walk long distances to bring clean water to their home. Credit: OCHA
"My wife and children used to spend most of the day going back and forth carrying heavy buckets and jerry cans filled with water on their heads or on our poor donkey", Abdullah [2], 50 years-old and father of nine children, told us. He lives in the Najd Al-Barad village, Al-Maqatera district of Lahj governorate, and they did not have direct access to clean, potable water.
"My children could not go to school because they were too busy helping us bring water to our house for our basic needs". Because men would be busy working most of the day or in other governorates looking for job opportunities, women and children would be the ones carry the burden of walking about three-hours distance to bring the water. Things changed with the intervention of Nahda Makers Organization (NMO), a humanitarian organization operating in Yemen.
The village of Najd Al-Barad, where Mr. Rashad and Mr. Abdullah live, was one of the areas where NMO, with funding from the YHF, rehabilitated water systems. NMO replaced the old submersible pump, rebuilt the diesel generator and provided all needed equipment to restore the network. Most importantly, NMO established a community water committee and trained its members to manage, operate, and maintain their water supply scheme to ensure the sustainability of the project.
Now, more than 13,000 people have direct access to water. "Finally, the water reaches my house and all of my children go to school", Mr Abdullah told us. "The water reaches most of the villages in Najd Al-Barad and the people can now go on with their lives without worrying about going back and forth from one village to another in order to fill a 10-litre jerrycan".
[1] [2] Names have been changed.
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If the late Tuesday and early Wednesday Don Lemon-led CNN Tonight wouldn't go down in infamy for its deranged reaction to President Trump's Arizona rally, the 1:00 a.m. hour drove the nail in the coffin. Most significantly, Lemon falsely claimed that Ronald Reagan already had Alzheimer's Disease while President and Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter's fear-mongering got smashed to pieces by…
NY Times Promotes Attack on Christians Who 'Shield' Bill O'Reilly
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The New York Times war on Bill O'Reilly continues even after Fox News pulled his show. This was a rich angle in the op-ed section on Tuesday: "The Mistake Christians Made in Defending Bill O'Reilly." In the paper, the headline was "Christians Who Shield O'Reilly." The pull quote was "Evangelical leaders tend to resist taking sexual assault claims seriously."
CBS Contributor Trashes Fox News Viewers as Pro-'Sexual Predator'
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Faith Salie, a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and a comedic panelist on the snarky NPR game show WaitI Wait! Don't Tell Me!, penned a piece for the fiercely feminist website Jezebel . The headline was "Bill O'Reilly Didn't Harass Me, But His Viewers Did."
WashPost Reveals the Left: 'Mission Was to Bring Down Bill O'Reilly'
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The front page of Saturday's Washington Post told the tale about the war on Fox News. It wasn't about accusers getting a payout. It was about damaging the network by taking down its top star. The Post headline was "''Mission was to bring down Bill O'Reilly'."
Bozell & Graham Column: Hypocrisy In The Anti-O'Reilly Army
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham
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Fox News took Bill O'Reilly off the air after a heavy campaign to fire him led by CNN's media unit and The New York Times. If all the charges of sexual harassment are true, his case is indefensible. That said, it's time for his media critics to stand down. They are guilty of rank hypocrisy. These same media outlets despised the idea that Donald Trump would drag Bill Clinton's sexual harassment…
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The awkwardness for viewers of MSNBC's The 11th Hour on Wednesday had to have been through the roof as host Brian Williams tried to tiptoe his way through covering Bill O'Reilly's axing from the Fox News Channel. This awkwardness, of course, has to do with Williams's own scandal from 2015 that led to his own downfall from NBC Nightly News.


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Sports In Other sports 02 Jul 2018 Ajay Jayaram: sometimes shuttler, sometimes artist
Sports, In Other sports
Ajay Jayaram: sometimes shuttler, sometimes artist
THE ASIAN AGE. | KABEER KHAN
Published : Jul 2, 2018, 12:32 am IST
Updated : Jul 2, 2018, 12:54 pm IST
The badminton player, who suffered an injury last year, works his way up to the top again.
Ajay Jayaram
The Shuttler
"It ain't about how hard you hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward." This is the mantra by which Rocky Balboa, the character made famous by Sylvester Stallon in the 'Rocky' series, lives by.
When shuttler Ajay Jayaram was injured, these lines kept playing on a loop in his head. The hamstring injury he sustained in the senior national in November last year, left him puzzled. He was at his career's best ranking (13) in April but a severe hamstring injury stood between him and the top 10. The shuttler was not ready to stay on the sidelines for eight long months. Jayaram even tripped off the top 100 until last month, when he marked his return in the US Open. He reached the semi-finals in his third tournament after the injury.
At the age of 30, sitting out for eight months was hard for him, especially from a psychological perspective. "You start doubting yourself once your ranking goes down. Even if it was not in my hands, it was mentally challenging" he says.
After returning, the situation was different. In the current scenario, the game keeps evolving every day. If you are out for so long, there are a lot of things an athlete has to pick up to keep up.
For Jayaram, it went down to self-doubt. "Once you get back from an injury, you visualise yourself playing the game before the injury. That is not possible but also not avoidable. The results in the US Open really motivated me." One can figure out from Jayaram's tone that he needed these results to reach a certain kind of mental stability.
However, he was not the only one who was troubled by an injury. Kidambi Srikanth too missed a couple of matches after the tournament in Nagpur. Even Prakash Padukone had earlier pointed out the need for athletes to choose their competitions wisely to avoid these injuries.
Jayaram insists that you can't escape the rigorous schedule that hosts events after events, "To boost your ranking, you have to keep playing. The schedule is hard and you cannot escape it. Playing for so long adds to the fatigue and builds up. You overuse your muscles," he says.
Ajay Jayaram's twitter bio says, "Professional athlete and a wannabe artist." For a non-critic of art, his sketches don't seem like the work of a wannabe artist.
While he was cooling his heels, Jayaram went back to his childhood habit of sketching. His art is rather appealing. The shuttler uses his pencil in three-dimensional sketches and while he was on the sidelines, the hobby kept him busy. "I was interested in sketching as a kid but recently I have been doing it regularly. You sure have more time when you are injured," he says.
The array of his sketches is quite vast. It goes from the admired character of Jon Snow from The Game of Thrones to a 3-D drawing of a shuttlecock. "I like the 3-D sketches and it kept me busy," he says.
Currently, Jayaram is working his way up again while he eyes a return to the super series next year. "I need to get myself back to the top 50 to be eligible to play bigger tournaments," he says.
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Award winning electronic musician, DJ and producer Swami (aka DJ Swami) produces a unique hybrid sound of electronic and world music, fusing electronica, house, techno, hip hop and reggae with traditional Indian Punjabi folk roots. Swami's current touring collaboration as PunjabTronix has been receiving global acclaim for it's fusion of technology and tradition using live improvised modular synthesizers, looping effects, Indian Punjabi folk instruments and hypnotic visuals.
Swami is described as a 'visionary pioneer' who has 'invented an entirely new type of sound' (BBC Music). With several international tours and headline live performances at Glastonbury, WOMAD and Transmusicales festivals to electronic club DJ sets at Fabric, Cargo, Non Stop Bhangra and SOBs, Swami energises crowds worldwide with electronic rhythms and analog modular synthesiser basslines fused with his Indian percussion rhythms and exotic instrumental melodies celebrating collaboration and diversity. He is twice winner of the UKAMA Best Producer Award for his electronic Indian albums 'DesiRock' and 'EQUALIZE' and his production and songwriting collaborations have earned Ivor Novello, Mercury Music Prize and Grammy nominations. Swami's music features in several movies and video games.
Swami Biography
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Swami was originally founded in 1999 by producer brothers Simon Duggal and Diamond Duggal (Subs and DJ Swami) in Birmingham, England. The brothers were responsible for creating the reggae Indian fusion sound for Apache Indian. Their debut Swami album 'Desi Nu Skool Beatz' (1999) pioneered the 'Desi Beats' genre blending Asian Underground, electronic house, breakbeat and drum and bass with traditional Punjabi bhangra music. Vocalist Taz Singh (Stereo Nation) and Indian tabla/dhol percussionist Kam Bura (Anakhi) also feature on the debut album as members of Swami. From 2002, DJ Swami continued as the the only original member of the group taking sole responsible for its future creative direction.
DesiRock
Swami released a second album 'DesiRock' (2004) with a new hip hop electronic sound and lineup including British rappers MC Sarpanch and S-Endz. Guest Punjabi vocalists featured on the album included Lehmber Hussainpuri, Master Rakesh and Jagz (DSI). With the addition of live band musicians Rocky Singh (ADF), bass player Martin Savale (ADF) and new vocalist Supreet Suri (Sur), Swami live performances evolved into an energetic hybrid of hip hop, rock, grime and electronic bhangra with headline performances at Glastonbury Festival, WOMAD Festival, MTV India Music Awards, Transmusicales Festival and BBC Maida Vale sessions. The 'DesiRock' album was consequently remixed with the new live band influences and released as 'So Who Am I?' (2005) on Sony Music India. The lead track 'DesiRock' became an international anthem for progressive British-Indian music with it's quirky breakbeat vocoder bhangra fusion winning DJ Swami the UKAMA Best Producer Award (2005). It has also featured in Hollywood, Bollywood and British films, TV shows and video games including EA Sports FIFA World Cup Soccer.
Swami's third album 'EQUALIZE' (2007) took a different approach to previous albums with initial recordings being made in DJ Swami's ancestral home town of Phagwara, Punjab, India collaborating with local Punjabi folk singers and musicians. The songs were completed in London, UK with additional guest vocal performances from Pras Michel (Fugees), MC Spee (Dreadzone), South African vocalist Ishmael Morabe (JOZI), Errol Reid (China Black) and NYC female RnB vocalist Boostylz. 'EQUALIZE' was a wider international musical journey than previous Swami albums but produced two very different hit singles with the energetic electronic bhangra house 'Electro Jugni' and the RnB hip hop groove driven 'Hey Hey'. The video single release of 'Hey Hey' featured a new emerging Swami lineup including Supreet Suri, S-Endz, percussionist Bobby Panesar as well as guest vocalist Boostylz. With the addition of female vocalist Liana McCarthy in the 'Electro Jugni' video single release, a new Swami lineup was on the horizon. 'EQUALIZE' went on to win DJ Swami the UKAMA Best Producer Award (2008) for a second time.
Swami released a compilation of their greatest hits as a fourth album entitled '53431' (2009) with the inclusion of two brand new electronic pop songs 'Sugarless' and 'Tonight'. With lead vocals provided by Supreet Suri and Liana McCarthy, the additional two songs cemented a new band lineup for Swami as DJ Swami with Supreet Suri (Sur), Liana McCarthy and S-Endz. 'Sugarless' went on to become a radio hit and Swami embarked on a European, India and Canada tour in 2009-10.
Swami's long awaited fifth album release 'UPGRADE' (2017) started back in 2010 soon after the release of the Greatest Hits 53431 album. Initial recordings took place in Ludhiana, Punjab, India assisted by DJ Nazran. The album is a hybrid blend of electronic pop, house, urban, Punjabi bhangra and Bollywood genres with influences from Diplo, Daft Punk and Zedd to BEP, Buraka Som Sistema, Honey Singh and Arijit Singh. With multi-lingual vocal performances from Sur, Liana and S-Endz, 'UPGRADE' also features guest Punjabi vocals from Lovely Pawar and Rav Saini on three of the songs. The album was six years in the making taking Swami on a worldwide musical adventure from Ludhiana, India to Mississauga, Canada and back to London, UK. To date there have been four single releases from 'UPGRADE' including Dumdaraka' (2011), 'Back It Up' (2013), 'Do It Again' (2014) and 'We Are' (2015). The complete album features six more brand new songs including their latest single release 'Dil Vich', an energetic reggae bashment groove featuring the amazing Punjabi vocal tones of Lovely Pawar and the hypnotic traditional melodies of sarangi and tumbi.
SIDETRKD
Accompanying the release of 'UPGRADE' is an instrumental electronic version of the album entitled 'SIDETRKD' (2017). These mixes are a flow and interaction of technology meets tradition where worldly musical sounds push the boundaries of electronic beat driven creativity. Featuring progressive house and trap mixes with influences of Maceo Plex, Solomun, Richie Hawtin, Stephan Bodzin, DeadMau5, Daft Punk, DJ Khaled, Future and Drake, 'SIDETRKD' is a mostly instrumental eclectic hybrid DJ live performance club mix of house and bass driven beats with analog riffs pulsating to the Swami DNA of Indian percussion and melodies…
'Swami have invented an entirely new type of sound' BBC Music
'The future of Asian music' Bobby Friction (BBC Radio 1)
'DJ Swami is an innovator, moderniser and visionary' Dipps Bhamrah (BBC Asian Network)
'One of the most electrifying performances I have ever seen' DJ Nihal (BBC Radio 1)
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The Vile Vortices
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A Scottish biologist by the name of Ivan Terrance Sanderson was the first to coin the term 'The Vile Vortices'. Sanderson concluded there were 12 such locations all across the world with the Bermuda Triangle being probably the most famous. Strange unexplainable phenomena have happened within these anomalous locations all throughout recorded history and have generated countless legends across the planet. While most of these Vile Vortices are at sea, there are actually a few found on land. All of these locations have hosted a myriad of vanishings. Some have speculated with quite the imagination on these mysterious places; the Vortices being gateways to other dimensions or the locations of hidden extraterrestrial bases on Earth. Others take a more mundane approach claiming the Vortices to be locations of dense electromagnetic energy and even hot spots upon the Ley Lines of the planet. The only objectivity on the subject is that they remain unexplained to this very day.
The locations of the Vile Vortices all across the planet
I wish to present to you a brief overview of all these Vortices as well as some of the lore surrounding them. These anomalies are located all along the planet's grid. Five are in the Tropic of Cancer and five are in the Tropic of Capricorn. The last two are located at the North and South Pole respectively. Together they all form into an Icosahedron (a 20-faced polyhedron) geometric form. For anyone familiar with sacred geometry, this may have relevance to them. Oddly enough, when mapping out this planetary grid and comparing it to geography from history, many famous monuments of ancient civilizations are found on the same Ley Lines that connect to each and every one of the Vile Vortices; which makes many wonder if there are things concerning the Earth our ancestors knew that is lost to us in modern times.
Mohenjo-Daro is considered to be one of the worlds first major cities. It was founded sometime around the 26th century B.C.E. in Pakistan and is one of the most epic achievements of the Indus Valley civilization. Seriously, these people were creating wonders not seen again for thousands upon thousands of years. These monumental architectural achievements could rival Mesopotamia or even Egypt.
When the city was found in the 20's it came with an ominous discovery. All throughout the city were skeletal remains of people in contorted positions, which is objective evidence for violent and painful deaths. In ancient times the city's population seems to have been massacred. The Indus Civilization fell without explanation suddenly according to archaeological discoveries. Though the lack of weapons found near the skeletons has caused some to question this theory. Which has lead to speculations that the people died of disease or some sort of natural disaster like flooding (these theories are highly doubted). Despite this, there are no mainstream theories satisfactory to how the people who once lived there died.
David Davenport, a researcher of the site and author of the book, 'Atomic Destruction in 2000 B.C.', has more fringe and alternative views on how the people at Mohenjo-Daro met their doom. There were many objects found within the ruins that seem to be fused together from heat that would have to be at least 1500°C to do so, as well as melted bricks only from a single direction. One of the skeletons brought to a lab for research had 50 times the radiation level normally found in a human body. The only known weaponry that causes devastation in the manner found at Mohenjo-Daro is atomic. There is a fascinating tale concerning this fallen ancient city that we shall never know about.
The North Pole is pretty tame concerning unexplained phenomena and Vile Vortices. Probably because no one lives there and it doesn't get much traffic. Though it still has disappearances. Like in 1845, when an expedition of 129 men from England was lost without a trace there. They were found 150 years later, the evidence of their demise was grisly, to say the least. The party of explorers had to resort to cannibalism to survive and there were other signs of violent fatalities. Modern legends suggest the lost city of Atlantis is frozen under the ice at the North Pole, but this Vile Vortex is not the only one to make that claim.
Oddly enough, there are two groups of people who believe there's an opening in the North Pole: the flat Earth believers and the hollow Earth believers. In some circles, this opening is believed to be a portal to another dimension or to The Garden of Eden mentioned in the Bible. Flat Earthers say it leads to Agartha, a divine realm, and a higher state of consciousness. With future technology, we shall explore the North Pole more thoroughly and many suggest the discoveries could shock humanity to its very core.
Wharton Basin
Located off the west coast of Australia, this particular Vile Vortex has an 8.6 magnitude earthquake back in 2012 decimating the surrounding area and was unprecedented for an intraplate earthquake. This is also the area where that Malaysian airline's plane vanished back in 2014. The Wharton Basin contains deep fractures where tectonic plates meet and has a massively high degree of seismic activity and rare geological events, as well as being home to a fault line. Many of these rare geological events never occurred anywhere else on the planet, explaining why scientists are so keen on studying the Wharton Basin. Due to the remote nature of this Vile Vortex in the Indian Ocean, much of the unexplained phenomena that happens there has little documentation.
Easter Island is filled with many mysteries. It's one of the most isolated islands on Earth. The enigmatic location is world-famous for its incredibly bizarre statues. There are 887 of these Moai statues that were created by Rapa Nui people who once lived there. The reason these massive human-like statues were created remains unknown.
The theories regarding them are plentiful. The main contention is how these massive stone sculptures were moved. They weigh up to 82 tons and seems beyond the grasp of such a primitive culture to move such massive stone artwork. In the 1980s, scientists tried to replicate how the statues could have been moved using only the tools known to exist at the time and it proved to be literally impossible to do so. Rapa Nui folklore says the statues were animated by magic and moved on their own, so it's not clear why scientists don't become wizards and move the stone statues with Arcane Power. There's also the theories that the Moai statues were created by aliens or at least the Rapa Nui were influenced by aliens to create them.
The Algerian Megaliths
These ancient monoliths are a burial ground in north-west Africa located in the Sahara desert. They were created by the Zingh Empire, a civilization shrouded in mystery and legend existing in the area long before recorded history. There is very little information on these ancient people because they existed 15,000 years ago. Impossible for people to build something requiring such advanced engineering skills. What we do know is planes fly over this Vile Vortex often vanish. Many believe this is a curse from the dead that dwells there; this being a Vile Vortex the unexplained phenomena go far beyond mere disappearances. Electronics don't work correctly, compasses spin in circles, and many who visit the location find it to have an aura of darkness about it, causing people to feel ever-present anxiety. In the past, people who journeyed into this area of the Sahara desert and didn't return were said to be the victims of supernatural Djinn. The desolate places of the Earth being the main home of these entities. Disrespecting or messing around with any of the monolithic burial grounds is rumored to bring lifelong bad luck and early death.
The Dragon's Triangle
Also called the Devil's Sea, the Dragon's Triangle is located near Japan and has an insane amount of strange occurrences. Countless ships have vanished when trekking across its waters and UFO sightings are abundant.
The Japanese have a dense collection of folklore surrounding the triangle, but it's what's found underneath the waters is truly fascinating. The Dragon's Triangle is home to the famous Yonaguni Monument. The underwater city is called Japan's Atlantis, a massive city made with huge stone slabs cut into impressively perfect 90-degree angles. It also has sophisticated walls, steps, and columns. But sadly this civilization has been lost to time, and there's next to no information on it. The architectural achievements are astonishing, and the sunken city is allegedly over 10,000 years old. Ships and planes vanish into nothing there, to the point the Japanese government has even labeled the site a disaster area; to be avoided at all costs by law. The dark legends surrounding the Devil's Sea go back all throughout Japanese history. Metallic objects are said to rise from the water, only to zoom out of sight at an astonishing speed. Winged monsters are said to rise from the waves and take flight. In some tales, sea monsters even come up to the surface that breath fire. This Vile Vortex is a hotbed for unexplained phenomena.
Hamakulia
The strange paranormal phenomenon occurs within this Hawaiian Vile Vortex. Strange occurrences mainly focusing around the revered volcano of Hamakulia. The Vile Vortex is off the coast of Hawaii in the ocean. The source of the Vortex's power is believed to come from the Hamakulia volcano on the southeast side of Kauai. The volcano is on mainland Hawaii, traveling underneath the ocean floor to a place called the Ring of Fire, a group of underwater volcanoes. The path of lava flows through the Vile Vortex. Numerous planes and ships have vanished without a trace in the area. Strange electrical energy flows throughout the region. Rocks on the volcano randomly become magnetized. Locals have a long and colorful folklore surrounding Hamakulia, treating the volcano with utter reverence.
New Hebrides Trench
This Vile Vortex has a massive trench with depths of 25,000 feet in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. In the depths of the trench, scientists have discovered a species of immensely large eels among other unique life forms in the bitter, cold darkness. This is one of the deepest trenches on Earth. The farther explorers went down, the creatures became more and more alien-like. However, the New Hebrides Trench is one of the tamer Vile Vortices. It has the anomalous electromagnetic activity that's the calling card of pretty much all the vortices, but this vortex has a low body count unlike the other locations on this list.
The Zimbabwe Megaliths
Built around 900 years ago, these massive stone structures have held up quite well and are still very impressive till this day. The entire complex spans almost 1,800 acres, which for monoliths so ancient, is an astounding feat, to say the least. Estimates say it took around 300 years to build and was home to a population of 18,000 people at its height. But then, all of a sudden the entire settlement was abandoned for mysterious reasons.
Many speculate about what could have happened to them. There is no objective reason as to why the Zimbabwe Megaliths were left to become a ghost town. Archaeological evidence doesn't suggest violence or anything of that nature. It's as if one day the inhabitants of the settlement all vanished. Like all Vile Vortices, strange phenomenon happens here often, but sadly the folklore surrounding the site is lost to the passage of time.
The South Atlantic Anomaly
The South Atlantic Anomaly is a place on Earth where the natural radiation from the planet is out of control. This is because the Earth's inner radiation belt actually comes closest to the surface in this particular area of the globe. It creates a flux of energetic particles that permeate from the planet to the point satellites are exposed to much higher levels of radiation than they're used to when orbiting around. And crafts that fly over it suffer from the high levels of radiation. Astronauts who look outside while passing over it have strange hallucinations they term 'cosmic ray visual phenomena'. The Hubble Space Telescope is unable to take pictures while passing over the anomaly, and the International Space Station spent billions in high tech shielding to protect them from the bombardment of radiation. Basic electronics do not work when space shuttles pass over it, costing all space-faring nations an insane amount of money in damages.
There are also many plane vanishings in the area. In one case, a French airbus of 330 people disappeared without a trace while flying over the anomaly. Some believe this is one of the Vile Vortices that open the door to another dimension and all ships and planes lost have crossed over to another plane of existence.
The Antarctic has a population of around 4,000 people. Most of the population are researchers and scientists. Despite this, there have not been any scientific explanation for the area's odd occurrences. Antarctica has long been suspected of housing ancient civilizations beneath its ice, including the theory that it's actually Atlantis buried underneath the inhospitable surface. There's a famous mound in the shape of a pyramid. Some researchers are adamant the pyramid was man-made and indeed- it doesn't seem like a natural formation.
It's unfortunate with our current level of technology, Antarctica cannot really be explored in a manner useful to discovering the truths to these mysteries. Still, many claim one day when we're able, humanity will discover an entire lost civilization under the ice. Pop culture latched onto this idea long ago. Anyone familiar with H.P. Lovecraft knows that the accounts of his book 'At The Mountains Of Madness', takes place in the chilling continent of Antarctica. In the tale, human explorers come upon the remnants of a pre-human alien civilization, encountering horrors that drive them to insanity. There have been countless disappearances and unexplained phenomena to happen at this Vile Vortex, and a plethora of bizarre deaths.
The Bermuda Triangle
Also called the Devil's Triangle, this Vile Vortex needs no introduction, I assume. It's infamous across many cultures and easily the most well known of all the Vile Vortices. Countless ships, planes, and even entire fleets have vanished without a trace in this ominous triangle off the coast of Florida. An astonishing number of people have journeyed out into the triangle never to return.
Even recently on May 15, 2017, a plane vanished in the triangle carrying the CEO of Skylight Group. Some say the vanishings are because of an anomalous form of methane gas since the area sometimes become so foggy out of nowhere, making it impossible to see. Some say it's aliens who live in an underwater base beneath the triangle and of course there's those who claim it to be a portal into another dimension. Compasses spin in circles and electronics fail at the most unfortunate moments. This is yet another location many claim the lost city of Atlantis resides sunken beneath the ocean, and the unexplained phenomena in the area occur because of crystal technology lost at the bottom of the sea. The only objective thing anyone can really say about the Bermuda Triangle is to not go there if you value your own life.
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